Daniel Quinn (politician)

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Daniel Seamus Quinn was the New Democratic Party (NDP) candidate at the 2004 federal election in Canada, in the riding of Lac-Saint-Louis, Quebec, which, until the 2004 federal elections, was considered the safest Liberal seat in Canada. He was born in 1983 in Montreal, Quebec. He has lived in Pointe-Claire, Quebec since 1984.

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Daniel Quinn attended St. Thomas High School, where he started his political career as the Student Council President. After successfully completing the school's International Baccalaureate Middle Years Programme, he went on to study Liberal Arts at John Abbott College. Currently, he is studying History and Political Science at Concordia University in Montreal.

Quinn took an interest in politics at a very young age. In addition to serving on his high school's Student Council for five consecutive years, he has been actively involved in the following political parties: the Liberal Party of Quebec; the Montreal Island Citizens' Union; the Green Party of Quebec; and the New Democratic Party. Though he was a member of a multitude of political parties, by his second year of college he was a convinced social democrat.

In early 2003, he founded the Lac-Saint-Louis Riding Association of the New Democratic Party. On January 26, 2004, he was nominated as the riding's NDP candidate, defeating Ryan Young in a very close vote. In the June 28, 2004, federal elections, Quinn came in fourth place, receiving 7.55% of the votes. In the 2000 federal election, the Lac-Saint-Louis candidate had received only 1.2% of the votes.

As of September 2004, the riding of Lac-Saint-Louis had the largest NDP membership in Quebec.